Article: Better than life. (My '80s).(Sylvere Lotringer recounts the 80s)(Biography)

As editor of Semitext(e) for close to three decades, SYLVERE LOTRINGER has introduced American readers to Continental theorists from Gilles Deleuze to Michel Foucault, from Paul Virilio to Antonio Negri. But when it comes to the '80s, Lotringer, who here recounts his passage through the decade, will probably always be remembered for his Foreign Agents series--those little black books through which the art world first learned the name Jean Baudrillard.

The '80s began in 1983, with the publication of Jean Baudrillard's Simulations, which propelled a kind of weightless nebula into culture just before a charge of Orwellian paranoia took over. At the time, there was ...

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